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‘Is Legatee to Remainder After 
‘Enough Were Sold to Pay 
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| been sufficient lots sold to assure the 
Payment of several bequests 
was stopped by the executor, William T. 


_Arts. 


| The Academy was represented at the 
sale by John F., Lewis, its president, and 


that the Academy would secure four im- 
portant canvases, and his only sorrow 
Was that the exceptionally fine portrait 


ot Washington, by Gilbert Stuart, was i 
Nicos to the institution, for it fetched the |) 
being bought by | 


| record price, $16,100, 
: Thomas B. Clarke, of New York, who 


‘came over especially to carry off the] 


| prize. 
| Under this scheme the Academy ob- 


| tains the portrait of Washington, painted | 
by Charles W. Peale, the same painter's || 
portrait of Franklin, Rembrandt Peale’s | 


“Patriae Pater’’ portrait of Washington 
and a portrait of Franklin, by an 
unknown. painter. 

These are of exceptional interest, for 
the Peale Washington is that painted in 
1788. It is the last that artist painted 
of the great American patriot and Pres- 
ident from life; the Peale Franklin, that 


with the immense spectacles, was painted | 


only a short time before the death of the 


great diplomat, statesman and scientist. || 

is well |! 
by lithog- |) 
‘ ¥,.& line: |) 
engraving. it is the original of the por- || 
trait the artist painted sor the United | 
The Franklin, by an un- |! 


The Rembrandt Peale portrait 
known by the reproductions 
raphy made by the artist, and 


States Senate. 
known, is of scarcely less interest, for 
it bears evidence of having been paint- 
ed from life, and is regarded as a mas- 
terly production. 

An effort was made on the part of the 
Academy of the Fine Arts to save the 
Stuart’s Washington for that institution, 
and at the start the Academy ‘bid. on it, 
but it rapidly went up.to the record 
price, and Mr, Clarke soon had the field 


au 


a 


Stuart’s Portrait of Washington | 


The remainder of the paintings and| 
‘Statuary in the collection of the late | 
|}Joseph Harrison, Jr., belonging to the es- | 
tate of the late Mrs. Sarah Harrison, | 
were put on sale at the Philadelphia Art | 
Galleries, Fifteenth and Chestnut streets, | 
yesterday afternoon, and when there had } 


the’ sale} 


Elliott, who announced that the remain- | 
der of the collection now became the } 
preperty of the Academy of the Fine 


by John HB. D. Trask, the Manager of the | 
institution. Mr. Trask said after the sale |, 


$16,100, which was paid by Mr. Thomas B.| 


“There was a ve 
Bes ee and the 


Mozier. both 
B. Johnson, of the Bald 
Works, Mr. Johnson o| 


separately, Mr. 


Among the important 1 
were: ak 
|..Thomas Birch, ‘‘Eingagement Betwe 
U.S. Frigate United States and the - 
Frigate Macedonian,’’ A . ae 
| Thomas Birch, “‘Eingngement ie cn 
'U. S, Frigate Constiturion and the Bri 
paar Soe Lg i: dest th Ts, 

J. ‘F. Cropsey, ** » of War,’’ pies 
| Thomas Birch, Ten wementt a oe 
| Wasp and the Frolic,’ $327.50. © ea | 
Leen Geyer, “Columbus. and the Bge;’? | 
sia Buchanan Read, ‘‘Jeptha’s Daughter,’* 
eredenick, Leighton, aeapaiee Bost ‘the 
ouses Oi! ontague -an ‘f i Ah 
@hristian Sichuessele, Dre Franklin Before ; 
tie tty Council in London, January 29, | 

bs Res Ty, 3 3 di 

P, F, Rothermel,. ‘‘Patrick H Deliver- | 
‘ing’ His Famous Pes me ‘the House of 
i Burgesses, Virginia, 1765,’’ $605. 
Benjamin West, “Sir pane planes, oe | 
Pp. FF. Rothermel, “‘King Lear, loster and | 
ae statues © ght: so oo 
‘he ws Wary ‘prou ; : : ie { 
Sarah Fisher Ames, marble bust of Lincoln, 


* Hioudon, busitof Count d’Hstaing, ‘$315, 


Piste 


HARRISON ESTATE SALE. 


There was a large attendance and the} 
prices obtained were regarded as good, if! 
not high at the sale, Mar. 12, of the re-] 
mainder of the paintings and statuary in the 
collection of the late Joseph Harrison, Jr., 
belonging to the estate of the late Mrs.. 
Sarah Harrison at the Philadelphia Art 
Galleries, Phila. When there had beén suf-| 
ficient lots sold to assure the payment of 
several bequests the sale was stopped by 
the executor, Mr. William T. Elliott, who; 
announced that the remainder of the col-! 
lection now became the property of the 
Penna. Academy. 

The Academy was represented at the sale) 
by Mr. John F. Lewis, its president, and) 
by Mr. John E. D. Trask, the manager of 
the institution. Mr. Trask said after the 
sale that the Academy would secure four 
important canvases, and his only sorrow 
was that the exceptionally fine portrait of 
Washington, by Gilbert Stuart, known as 
the “Yaughan -Portrait,” and which is re~| 
garded by some “experts” as being the} 
finest Stuart in existence, was lost to the 
institution. It fetched the record price,| 


Clarke, of New York. 

The Academy now obtains the portrait of 
Washington, painted by Charles W. Peale, | 
the same painter’s portrait of Franklin,| 
Rembrandt Peale’s “Patriae Pater,” portrait 


known painter. “These are of ex- 
‘interest, for the Peale Washing- 

“painted in 1/83. It.is the last 
| a artist painted of the great American 
patriot and President from life; the Peale 
Franklin, that with the immense spectacles, 
was painted only a short time before the 
death of the great diplomat, statesman and 
scientist. The Rembrandt Peale portrait is 


raphy made by the artist, 
engraving. 
trait the artist painted for the United States 
Senate. The Franklin, by an unknown, is 
of scarcely less interest, for it bears evi- 
dence of having been’ painted from life, and 
is regarded as a masterly production. 

_ Mr. Clarke, who has secured the Vaughan 
portrait for his private collection was bid 
1p by Knoedler & Co. and the Penn. Acad- 
amy representatives, and is warmly con- 
zratulated upon his prize. He started bid- 
jing only at $8,000. There are three repli- 
cas of the portrait known of the five said 
‘o have been painted by Stuart, one owned 
xy Mr. Marsden J. Perry of Providence, 
R. I, for which he paid $10,000 i in 1900, one 
Charles A. Munn, and an- 


| The portrait was painted in Philadelphia 
}n 1795. Afterwards the artist sold the origi- 
jhal for $200 to Mr. Winstanley, a landscape 
bainter who took it to London, where it 
jvas bought by Mr. William Vaughan, from 
ivhom it came into the possession of the 
ate Joseph Harrison. 


nD lew, Yorker Buys Gilbert Stu- 
i art's Painting of George 
- Washington, 3 


le The femons Gilbert Stuart portrait of 
shington has left Philadelphia and 
Thas gone to New York. Its new owner, 
My | “Thomas B. Clarke, of New York, 
| ure yhased it for $16,100 yesterday at the 
| sale of the Joseph Harrison collection at 
the  aaanabaan bas Galleries. 


rs of Hg numerous. art Bntiecors pres- 
S uu including representatives from the 
“Metropolitan Museum and from several 
i the Philadelphia institutions who 
“were anxious to keep the painting in 
‘this city. When it was finally awarded. 
to Mr. Clarke he was applauded and 
| congratulated by the excited audience. 

| The portrait is 29 inches long and 23% 
linches wide. It was painted by Stuart 
}in September, 1795. He made five copies 
| from this, but, becoming dissatisfied with 
jit, sold the original for two hundred 
i dollars to Winstanley, the landseape 
jpainter, The latter took it to London, 


a Ie ee eee ee 


shiggion and a ‘portrait. of. Franklin, 


It is the original of the por-— 


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es ad 


"Gitte Fine Arts Ces 
After the purchase of the Stuart por- 
ee the executors of the Harrison es-_ 
‘tate stopped the sale, since the proceeds, 
from this and other paintings realized 
enough to cover the beneficiary provided | 


for in the will of Joseph Harrison. The’ 
remainder of the collection will be pre-. 
‘sented to the Academy of the Fine Arts. 
This includes the C. W. Peale portraits * 
of Washington and Franklin. and the) 
; Rembrandt Peale portrait of Washing- 
ton, 

Among the other important purchases | 
at the auction was the Edward 3.1 
' ‘Bartholomew statue of ‘‘Hve Repentant” | 
which was bought by Alba B, Johnson, ; 
president of the Baldwin JS.ocomotive} 
Works, for $600. Charles K. Smith, of 
Chestnut Hill, bought the Benjamin: 
West painting of Sir Philip Sydney for 
poo, and the Sarah Fisher Ames bust 
of Lincoln for $400. Other high priced j 
oaintings which were sold were the} 
Wrederick Leighton ‘‘Reconciliation” for 
$405, and the Rothérmel ‘‘Patrick Henry’? 
for $650 to Charles [damilton, of luafay-/ 
atte; and Christian Schuessele’s “Mranik- 
‘in Betore the London Council” for $935 | 
to Joseph T. Kinsley. | 


Other Paintings Sold, 
Other paintings sold and the prices 
which they brought follow: ‘‘Viision of } 
Cohambus,’’ by J. Hamilton, 3100; ~“De-; 
| parture of Columbus,” Durand, $100: i 
“The Wood Nymph,” leutze, $95; “Hight 
Aoadiicae ge United States and the 
ie > and “The Constitution and 
' ihe es Thomas Birch, $225 exch: 
“The Bone of Contention,” Von Witte, 


es 


' $155;. ‘Victor Hmanuel,’’ Carolini, $125; 
lhe Spirit of War’ and “The Spirit of 
Cropsy,.) $383 “and, $210; “Te 
I vasp and the: Frolic,” Birch, | $827.30, 
l*‘Madam Roland,” Le Brun; (‘Columbus 
and the BHgg,’’? Johann Geyer, $330; ‘Jdep- 
tha’s Daughter,” Buchanan Reed, $140, 


| N OIL portrait of George Washing- 
A ton, by Gilbert Stuart, sold original- 
4 ly by the artist for $200, was sold 
again yesterday from the collection of 


ding, for $16,100. ©The purchaser was 
Thomas B. Clarke, of New York, and the 
' picture will be added to his private col- 
| lection. 


-of Washington and Franklin, painted from 


the rest were withdrawn and presented to 
the Academy of the Fine Arts. So ‘that an- 
cient center of art will be enriched by 
the addition of original oil portraits of 
Washington by Rembrandt Peale and C. 
W. Peale, and of Franklin by C, Ww. 
Peale and an unknown artist. All the 
portraits are historic. 

Tt was the original intention of Mrs. 
Harrison that her entire art collection 
| should go to the academy, but there was 
a proviso in her will to the effect that, 
should the estate not provide sufficient 
funds to pay all legacies, enough of the 
art objects should be sold to do so. Hence 
the sale of yesterday, and, when it was 
concluded, many persons gathered about 
President John Frederick Lewis and 


Secretary John E, D. Trask, of)the acad- | 


emy, to congratulate them upon the he- 

| quest, 
Prices Generally Low 

. Prices generally were low. Charles K. 
Smith, of Chestnut Hill, bought Benja- 
min West's “‘Sir Philip Sydney’ for $550, 
the bidding starting at $50. Mr. Smith 
‘also hought Johann Geyer’s ‘‘Columbus 
and the Bgg,: for $380, J. F. Cropsey’s 
‘The Spirit of .Peace’’, for $210, 
Robbe's ‘Dogs “Attacking a Bull’ for 
$190, and marble busts of Nicholas I of 
Russia and Abraham Lincoln, with their 
pedestals, for $140 and $425, respectively. 
The Lincoln bust was by Sarah Fisher 
Ames. 

Thomas EH. Kingsley, this 


of city, 


: “Mrs. Harrison ae oilee nen scbiegc 
oer} Prices alee le Gift to Acade my 


Von Wille’s ‘‘The Bone 
for $885 and Christian Sc 
/Mrs. Sarah Harrison, after spirited bid-— 


It was the only one of several portraits: 


| life, in the collection, that was sold. All. 


Thomas Birch were! purchased by doneph 
| F. Sabin, of New York, who paid : 


Louis: 


Par aise, Brings 


bought for his srhaie 
for $155, J. F. Cropsey's 


jamin Franklin Before the Pris 
of London” for $675, 


‘who lives at the Belleyue-Stratfor 
‘came the owner af several paintin 
eluding Frederick Leighton ‘Recon 


iation of the Houses of 1} and 
Capulet,’’ at $405, and P, F. & s 
“Patrick Henry Delivering His Famous 

Speech in the Virginia House of ieee 


esses,” at $650. 4 
Competition Keen. 
The sale was attended ae about 200 gol 
lectors and dealers of this and 
cities, and at times the’ bidi¢ 
ied. The Stuart Washingten, | 
brought the banner price, was ‘started ot 
$1000, and competition for ite possession 
was keen. Many of those present came 
prepared to buy or to try to buy ‘the. 
quintet of portraits, and the fact thet | 
four of them were withdrawn centered 
attention upor the one remaining.  =— 
A painting of ‘‘King Lear, Gloster and. 
Edgar,” by B, Wittkamp, of Antwerp, 
more than six by. eight feet in size in. ck 
gilt frame, went for but $85, and “High- 
jand Lovers,” by B. K, Hayde: 
John Wilkie, brought $70. i rles Lue 
“Last Interview Between Lord and Lady 
William Russell in 1683,"" 7 ee ol 
was 6old for $145. Several 


id $230 for | 
the “Battle of the United — States and) 
Macedoniah”; $225 for a similar ie be- 
tween the Constitution. and Guerriere, and 


$327.50 foy still another sea-battle picture, 
the engagement between She een eae 


the Frolic. ae 

BE, Leutze’s ‘Wood Nymph” was. ‘sold 
for $95, and Edward H. May’s “Lady 
Jane Grey Going to Her Execution’ for 
$70. Vezia Le Brun's portrait of Made 
ame Roland brought $190, 


wer 


v 


Paintings, Statuary, etc. 


THE REMAINDER 
of the Collection of the Late 


JOSEPH HARRISON, Jr. 
(of 225 S. 18th St., Rittenhouse Square) 


and belonging to the Estate of 


Mts. Sarah Harrison, Deceased 


: , = | To be Sold Without Reserve 
| Under the Terms of the Will of said Decedent 


By Order of 
MR. THEODORE L. HARRISON 


and 
MR. WILLIAM T. ELLIOTT 


Executors 


On Monday Afternoon, February 26th 
at 2.30 o’clock 


at 


The Philadelphia Art Galleries 
S. E. Corner 15th and Chestnut Streets, 2d floor 
Philadelphia 


Entrance 103 S. 15th St. (Elevator) 
HARRY BARE 
Manager 


LATE 


M. THOMAS & SONS 


On Exhibition Thursday, February 22, until days of Sale - 


from 8 a.m. to 6 p. m. 


1942 


Terms and Conditions of Sale 


All bills payable in CASH before 
delivery. 

In case of disputes between-bid- 
ders the lot in dispute shall immedi- 
ately be put up again and resold. 

The sale of any Article will not 
be set aside on account of any error 
in the description, or imperfection. 
All articles are exposed for Public 
Exhibition one or more days, and 
are sold just as they are, without 
recourse. 

To prevent errors in delivery, 
goods cannot be removed without 
presentation of the bill, and nothing 
will be delivered during the sale. 

We will not be responsible for 
goods damaged in delivering. 

Goods carefully packed and 
shipped. 

Ladies and gentlemen unable to 
attend the sale can have their buy- 
ing orders executed by us without 
extra charge. 


PHILADELPHIA ART GALLERIES 


The Wood Nymph 


(Size of canvas, 33% x 40 inches) 


By E. Leutze 


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Lady Jane Gray as she goes to Execution, gives her Tablets as a remembrance 
to the Constable of the Tower 


No. 14 By Edward H. May 


(Size of canyas, 80 x 59 inches) 


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CATALOGUE 


Sale commences at 2.30 o’clock, Monday Afternoon, 
February 26, 1912 


(The size printed is the size of the canvas) 


+ HAMILTON . ‘ 
I Vision of Columbus 


160 “The pilot smote his breast; the watchman cried 
‘Land!’ and his voice in faltering accents died. 
At once the fury of the crew was quelled; 
And (whence or why from many an age withheld) 
Shrieks, not of men, were mingling in the blast; 
And armed shapes of god-like stature passed! 
Slowly along the evening sky they went, 
As on the edge of some vast battlement: 
Helmet and shield, and spear and gonfalon, 
Streaming a baleful light that was not of the sun!” 


From Rogers “Voyage of Columbus,” Canto I. 


(Width, 45 inches; height, 30% inches) 


A BODURAND 


lo Ys 2 Departure of Columbus from the Harbor of 
Palos on His First Voyage 


(Width, 20 inches; length, 15% inches) 


Peete ZE - 
z2-3 The Wood Nymph 
cae (Width, 42 inches; height, 57 inches) 


i 


THOMAS BIRCH 


4 Engagement Between U. S. Frigate United 


S, 4 States and British Frigate Macedonian 
— zi} 


(Width, 36 inches; height, 28 inches) 


Gaseed F. SABIN N.f 
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THOMAS EFIRCH 7 | 
is 5 Engagement Between U. S. Frigate Constitu- 
as wv, NA tion and British Frigate Guerriere 
(Width, 36 inches; height, 28 inches) 
Tog eet, FH SAB IN, AS 


CLARA VON WILLE 
C 6 The Bone of Contention 
(we 
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(Width, 67 inches; height, 47 inches) 
Tit ghee A 


PIETRO CARLING Venice 
.~ 7 Portrait of Victor Emanuel-in Hunting Costume 


o (From life.) 


i 7 rf, a 
S 


| (Width, 26 inéhies; height, 32 inches) 


pte CRO ESEY, 
op / a et 8 The Spirit of War / 
ee Ks (Width, 67 inches; height 44 inches) 


i . THahAs &. fA ~/ 
J. F. CROPSEY 
oo O 9 The Spirit of Peace 


(Width, 67 inches; height, 44 inches) 


Benjamin Franklin Before the Privy Council in London, June 29, 1773 
No: 23 ; By Christian Schussele 


(Size of canvas, 851% x 57% inches) 


Patrick Henry delivering his Famous Speech in the House of 
Burgesses, Virginia, A. D. 1765 


No. 24 By P. F. Rothermel 


(Size of canvas, 61% x 70 inches) 


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ie) 
Be WITTKAMP Belgium 


_ | is ? 10 Portrait of the Artist 


(Width, 38 inches; height, 51 inches) 


‘THOMAS BIRCH 
1 Engagement Between the Wasp and Frolic. 


i. gL) Seen (War ot 1812.) "| 
E (Width, 36 inches; height, 28 inches) 
| Goseer F. SABIN, N.Y, 


ViEZiA LE BRUN 
0 = 22x Portrait of Madame Roland 
yi | 


(Width, 25%4 inches; height, 30 inches) 


JOM CADILEAR 


e 13 Landscape View 
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(Width, 10% inches; height, 7 inches) 


_ EDWARD H. MAY, 


y. 14 Lady Jane Grey, as She Goes to Execution, 
Gives Her Tablets as a Remembrance to 
0) ye the Constable of the Tower 


(Width, 80 inches; height, 59 inches) 


Ay IELIAM PAGE 
15 Mother and Child 


| < 0 (Width, 3614 inches; height, 48 inches) 


16 


Jeet CRO RS EN 
16 Millennial Age. (An Allegorical Landscape.) 


“And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke 

many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, 

and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lft up 
/} «x sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” 


nd 
y 


| [ } &_I/saiah ui, 4. 


- “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamp, and the leopard 
shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion 
and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.”— 
Isaiah xi, 6. 

(Width, 54 inches; height, 38% inches) 
CEA ROW od sleds 
\ | 17 Hotspur and Glendower 
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Shakspeare’s Henry IV. Engraved in Boydell’s Shakspeare. 
(Width, 16% inches; height, 22% inches) 


JOHANN GEYER 
A f yeas Columbus and the Egg. (Dated 1847.) 
wo. i 


(Width, 72 inches; height, 57 inches) 


Pep UGHANAN READ 
on 19 Jeptha’s Daughter 


} (Width, 54% inches; height, 73 inches) 


No. 325 Sir Philip Sydney By Benjamin West 


(Size of canvas, 62x 78 inches) 


ee 


No. 26 Portrait of Washington By C. W. Peale 


(Size of canvas, 19 x 2334 inches) 


19 


Cienicics. LUCY 


20 Last Interview of Lord and Lady William Rus- 
= sell, 1683 


“Before his wife left him, he took her by the hand, and 
said: “This hand you now feel, in a few hours must be cold.’ 
At ten p. m. she left him; and she so governed her sorrow :as 
not to add, by the sight of her distress, to the pain of separa- 
tion. Thus they parted, not with sobs and tears, but with a 
composed silence, each wishing to spare the other, and restrain- 
ing the expression of a grief too great to be relieved by. utter- 
ance.” 


See Lord John Russell's “Memoirs of Lord William Rus- 
sell.” 


(Width, 114 inches; height, 75% inches) 


THOMAS COLE 
1 21 The Clove, Catskill Mountains 


(Width, 36 inches; height, 251% inches) 


20 


FREDERICK] LEIGH [oy 


22 Reconciliation of the Houses of Montague and 
Capulet. (Exhibited in Great Exhibition at 
Paris, 1855.) 


Ean 


A eee 
co 
“sate 


Capulet. O, brother Montague! give me thy hand: 
This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more 
Can I demand} 


Montague. But I can give thee more. 
lor I will raise her statue in pure gold; 
That, whiles Verona by that name is known, 
There shall no figure at such rate be set, 
As that of true and faithful Juliet. 


Capulet. As rich shall Romeo by his lady he; 
Poor sacrifices of our enmity! 


Prince. A glooming peace this morning with it brings ; 
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: 
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad thinsg; 
Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished. 
For never was a story of more woe, 
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. 


Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3. 


(Width, 92 inches; height, 70 inches) 


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Portrait of Benjamin Franklin 


(Painted a few days before his death) 


By Cay 


(Size of canvas, 19% x 23 inches 


. Peale 


VERIS TIAN SCHUESSELE 
3 G 23. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Before the Privy Council 
x, in London, January 29, 1773. ~ 


f -“A_ personal animosity between Governor Bernard, Lieu- 
a: a Kl tenant-Governor Hutchinson, and some distinguished patriots 
af - | of Massachusetts, contributed to perpetuate a flame of discon- 
Ee tent in that Province, though elsewhere it had abated. This 
was worked up, in 1773, to a high pitch by a singular combina- 
tion of circumstances. Letters had been written by Hutchin- 
son, Peter Oliver, the Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court, and 
others, to persons in power and _ office: in England, which 
contained a very unfavorable representation of public affairs: 
These letters came into the hands of Dr. Franklin, who was 
then the agent of the Colony of Massachusetts, in London, and 
they were transmitted by him to his constituents. Great indig- 
nation was excited on their perusal. The House of Represen- 
tatives drew up and sent a petition to his Majesty, in which 
they charged their Governor and Lieutenant-Governor with 
being betrayers of their trust, and of giving private, partial, 
and false information. They declared them enemies to the 
Colonies, and prayed for justice against them, and their speedy 
removal from office. The merits of this petition were discussed 
before his Majesty’s Privy Council. After a hearing, in which 
Dr. Franklin represented the Province of Massachusetts, the 
Governor and Lieutenant-Governor were acquitted. Mr. Wed- 
derburne (afterwards Lord Loughborough), who defended the 
accused royal servants, inveighed against Dr. Franklin in the 
severest language as the fomenter of disputes between the two 
countries. It was no protection to this venerable sage, that, 
being the agent of Massachusetts, he conceived it his duty to 
inform his constituents of letters written on public affairs cal- 
culated to overturn their chartered constitution. The philippic 
of Wedderburne turned mainly upon the mode in which Dr. 
Franklin had obtained these letters. 


“«These letters could not,’ said Mr. Wedderburne, ‘have 
eome into Dr. Franklin’s hands by fair means. Nothing will 
acquit him of having obtained them by fraudulent or corrupt 
means for the most malignant purposes. I hope, my Lords, 
you will mark and brand the man for the honor of this country, 
of Europe, and of mankind. Private correspondence has hith- 
erto been held sacred in times of the great party rage, not only 


24 


in politics, but religion. He has forfeited all the respect of 
societies and of men. Into what companies will he hereafter 
go with an unembarrassed face or the honest intrepidity of 
virtue? Men will watch him with a jealous eye; they will hide 
their papers from him, and lock up their escritories.’ And 
much more of the same strain of vulgar abuse, all of which 
Franklin bore ‘without the least apparent emotion.’ 


“These pleadings for a time worked great effects. Dr. 
Franklin was dismissed from his Deputy Postmastership in 
America, and Mr. Wedderburne placed himself on the road to 
high advancement which he sought, and with which he was 
rewarded. The insult offered to one of their public agents, 
and especially to one who was both the idol and ornament of 
his country, sunk deep into the minds of the Americans. 


“The next morning after the meeting of the Privy Council, 
Dr. Priestly breakfasted with Dr. Franklin, when he said: ‘He 
had never before been so sensible of the power of a good con- 
science; for that if he had not considered the thing for which 
he had been so much insulted as one of the best actions of his 
life, and what he should certainly do again in the same cir- 
cumstances, he could not have supported it.’ He was accused 
of clandestinely procuring certain letters, and of sending them 
to America, with a view to excite animosity against the goy- 
ernor and others, and thus'to embroil the two countries. But 
he assured Dr. Priestly that ‘he did not even know that such 
letters existed until they were brought to him as agent for the 
Colony, in order to be sent:to his constituents; and the cover 
of the letters on which the directions had been written having 
been lost, he only guessed at the person to whom they were 
addressed by their contents.’ ” 


Vide “Memoirs,” etc.,.by Wm. Temple Franklin, London, 
ISIS. : 


(Width, 85% inches; height, 5714 inches) 


Portrait of Washington 
No. 29 By Rembrandt Peale 


(Size of canvas, 54 x 72 inches) 


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Portrait of Washington 
No. 30 By Gilbert Stuart 
(Size of canvas, 2334 x 29 inches) 


(See Letter No. 30A in Catalogue) 


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ie? 24 Patrick Henry Delivering His Famous Speech 
yu in the House of Burgesses, Virginia, A. D. 
“Cesar has his Brutus. Charles the First his Cromwell 
and George the Third’—(‘Treason,” cried the speaker; 
“treason, treason,” echoed from every part of the house.) 
Henry faultered not for an instant, but rising to a loftier 


altitude, concluded thus: “May profit by their example. 
Ii this be treason, let ts make the most of it.” 


(Width, 611% inches; height, 70 inches) 


BENJAMIN WEST 


Ris vos Sir. Philip Sydney: (Painted 1806.) 
(Width, 62 inches; height, 78 inches) 


kas W. PEALE 
Seite ae Portrait of Washington 


“The last portrait from life, painted by Peale, was executed 
in 1783, and continued in possession of the artist until his 
death. It was sold with the ‘Peale Gallery,’ at Philadelphia. 
See letter of Benson J. Losing, Esq., in appendix to first 
edition of Irving’s life of Washington, page 501. Appleton 


& Co. 
(Width, 19 inches; height, 2334 inches) 


B. WITTKAMP Antwerp, Belgium 
“a 1-27 King Lear, Gloster and Edgar 


Gloster. ‘The trick of that voice I do well remember. 
Is’t not the king? 

ilear. Ay, every inch a king; 
When I do stare, see how the subject quakes. 
Shakspeare’s Tragedy of King Lear, Act 4, Scene 6. 


(Width, 77% inches; height, 98% inches) 


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‘28 Portrait of Franklin, (Painted a few days before 


his death.) 


Copy of a letter, from Rembrandt Peale to present owner 
of the portrait, dated June toth, 1859. 


“The portrait of Franklin which you bought at the sale of 
the Peale Gallery, was painted by my father in the year 1790. 
It was only one sitting. I accompanied my father to engage 
him for another to finish it. We found him sitting up in his 
bed-room, in much pain, with the sad conviction that he should 
never leave it. Yet the resigned expression of his venerable 
countenance, and his noble patriarchal head, from which flowed 
ample locks of gray hair on his shoulders, impressed me with 
unspeakable reverence. 


“He died ten days after this. I was among the multitude. 
that attended his funeral at the corner of Arch and Fifth 
streets. I sat on the wall directly over the grave—and the 
solemn sound of the earth, as it fell on the coffin, to hide him 
forever from sight, vibrated in my heart. I was absorbed in 
melancholy reverie as it became dark, and when I raised my 
eyes, the crowd of twenty thousand persons had, to me uncon- 
sciously, dispersed, I decended from my solitary seat—I felt 
sick and went home, silent and supperless to bed. 


“As cotinected with my authentication of this portrait, I 
narrate this extraordinary excitement of the Artist Boy.” 


(Width, 19% inches; height, 23 inches) 


REMBRANDT PEALE 


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‘*- 29 Portrait of Washington 


Painted by Peale from his original portrait af Washington 


in the U. S. Senate Chamber. 


(Width, 54 inches; height, 72 inches) 


Portrait of Benjamin Franklin 
No. 32 Artist Unknown 


(Size of canvas, 25% x 31% inches) 


King Lear, Gloster and Edgar 
No. 34 By P; F. Rethermeél 


(Size of canvas, 87 x 125% inches) 


GILBERT STUART 
*\2=30 Portrait of Washington 3 


Purchased from the late William Vaughan, Esq., London. 
On the back of the canvas is written, “General Washington, 
by Mr. Stuart.” 


Extract from Rembrandt Peale’s Lecture on the Portraits 
of Washington: « 


“Mr. Stuart’s first portrait of Washington was painted 
simultaneously with mine, in September, 1795. From this por- 
trait he made five copies; but, becoming dissatisfied with it, 
some years afterward sold it for two hundred dollars to Win- 
stanley, the landscape painter. Of this I was informed by Dr. 
Thornton, in Washington, soon after. its occurrence, so that it 
was not literally rubbed out, as has been supposed. Winstanley 
took it to London, where it was bought by. Mr. William 
Vaughan, and it is now in the possession of Joseph Harrison, 
Jr., of Philadelphia, who has permitted me to copy it. Although 
this portrait was not satisfactory to Mr. Stuart, yet I think in 
the lower portion of the face it has the advantage over the por- 
trait he afterwards painted. A small copy of it I have seen in 
Baltimore, certified on the back by Robert Gilmore, as painted 
for him by James House, from Stuart’s first portrait of Wash- 
ington. To me it was interesting in making this copy of the 
work of a fellow-artist, to study his first impressions of the 
living countenance of Washington.” 


(Width, 2334 inches; height, 29 inches) 


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30a Letter from Rembrandt Peale to Joseph Harri- 
son, Esq., written February 16, 1859, with 


reference to above Portrait, No. 30 


PHILADA. Feb. 16, 1850. 
Dear Sir: 


In the minute examination which was necessary in making 
a correct copy of your Washington, I was the more convinced 
of the truth of my impression, that it is the first original Por- 
trait painted by Stuart, in September 1795, at the same time 
that Washington sat to me. After making five copies of it, 
Mr. Stuart sold it to Winstanley the Landscape Painter, who 
took it to England, and doubtless sold it to Wm. Vaughan, 
from whose Nephew you bought it. In the Gilmore Collection 
is an excellent small copy of it by J. House, certified on the 
back as made from Stuart’s first Portrait. I have also seen 
a fine copy on Ivory by Field. 


Respectfully yours, 


(Signed) REMBRANDT PEALE 
J, Harrisonssq. 


LOUIS: ROBBE 
() 31 Dogs Attacking a Bull 


6 (Width, 8114 inches; height, 66 inches) 
UNKNOWN 


® -32 Portrait of Benjamin Franklin 


Painted in Paris when Franklin was Ambassador to the 
French Court. Purchased from the late William Vaughan, 
Esq., London, a contemporary of Franklin, and always consid- 
ered by him an original portrait. 


(Width, 25% inches; height, 3144 inches) 


Carrara Marble Statue—Eve Repentent 
No. 46 By Edward S. Bartholmew 


(Height of Statue and Pedestal, 7 feet, 9 inches) 


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(Width, 57 inches; height, 72 inches) 


P. F. ROTHERMEL 
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Pad I 
Ziel Gloster. The trick of that voice I do well remember. 


Ts’t not the king? 


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When I do stare, see how the subject quakes. 


Shakespeare’s Tragedy of King Lear, Act 4, Scene 6. 


(Width, 87 inches; height, 125% inches) 


DAVID WILKIE, R. A. 


35 Scotch Nurse 


0 es (Width, 8 inches; height, 10 inches) 


JOHN QUIDOR New York, 1866 


] £ 36 Scene at the Village Tavern 
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“Times grow worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as 
years of matrimony roll on. A tart temper never mellows with 
age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keen 
with use. For a long while he used to console himself when 
driven from home by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of 
the sages and philosophers.” 


(Width, 34 inches; height, 27 inches) 


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JOHN QUIDOR New York, 1866 


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bed; “why then I think Pll not make my will yet.” 


(Width, 34 inches; height, 27 inches) 


JOHN QUIDOR New York, 1866 
o~ 38 I Hated Crane at the Bow 
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JOGA OUIDOR New York, 1866 
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JOHN QUIDOR New York, 1866 
a2 Bs ae sf 40 Man on Horse 
(Width, 34 inches; height, 27 inches) 
y, I\ JOHN QUIDOR New York, 1866 


41 The Revellers 


(Width, 34 inches; height, 27 inches) 


Carrara Marble Bust—Abraham Lincoln 


No, 49 By Sarah Fisher Ames 


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JOHN QUIDOR New York, 1866 


phe 42 Rip Van Winkle 


(Width, 34 inches; height, 27 inches) 


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pe This dream of beauty and perfection wrought— 

What shapes divine! what rare, celestial beauty 
Thy soul hath mirrored to conceive this thought! 


Through the rich chambers of thy glowing fancy 
Moved fairer forms, with more of queenly grace! 

But thy true genius seized the perfect woman— 
The first fair mother of an exiled race. 


No need to tell us here the old-time story; 

E’en while we gaze the unbidden tears will start— 
The electric truth prisoned within the marble 

Thrills at a glance the appreciative heart. 


Fair type of erring womanhood repentant! 
Bid the censorious world draw near and tell, 
When its harsh code condemns thy weaker children, 
‘Fresh from the hands of God I sinned and fell.” 


From the “Home Journal.” 


(Height of Statue and Pedestal 7 feet 9 inches) 


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Pon SsHEAHAN | New York 


rx 55 Bust of Joseph Harrison 
56 Composition Pedestal 


NOTE.—The Statues of EVE and POCAHONTAS 
will be sold in the Harrison Mansion, No. 221 South 18th 
Street, Monday Afternoon, February 26th, immediately 
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